28 SORGHUM. 



Of this amount, over 50 per cent is produced by tlie states of New 

 York and Vermont, 20 per cent by Ohio and Michigan, while the re- 

 maining 30 per cent is divided between 14 of the northern states. 



Production of Sugar from Sugar Beets. 

 France. — Authority, Corenwinder and Macarez, Lille (Special Re- 

 port, Department of Agriculture, on " Culture of the Sugar Beet") : 



From 2,200 Pounds Roots. 



Pounds Sugar. Pounds- Molasses. 



1873-1 ■ 124.74 79.20 



1874-5 128.26 74.80 



1875-6 in.04 80.96 



1876-7 97.68 69.96 



187'7-S 133.65 77.88 



Average 120.27 76.56 



Equal to 5.47 per cent sugar from beets. 



From "A Complete Treatise on the Fabrication and Refining of Beet 

 Sugar," by L. Walkoff, we learn that the average per cent of sugar 

 from beets, in 1872-3, was, in Russia and Poland, 7.0 per cent. 



Germany 8.5 " " 



Austria and Hungary 9.6 " " 



During the season of 1879-80, there were worked in Germany 

 4,628,748 tons of beet roots for sugar. The average product per acre 

 was 11.09 tons of roots. From 1,174 tons of roots there was obtained 

 100 tons of all sugars, or 8.52 per cent of the weight of roots. This 

 yield is equal to 1,890 pounds of all sugars to the acre. 



The following tables give the statistics of the production, importa- 

 tion, and consumption of sugar and molasses in the United States from 

 1790 to 1882, inclusive. 



From 1878 to 1882, inclusive, no allowance is made for sorghum or 

 maple sugar, owing to the lack of reliable statistics as to their produc- 

 tion. Since 1878, the amount of sorghum and maple molasses is esti- 

 mated at 15,000,000 gallons of the former, and 2,000,000 gallons of 

 the latter, although the production of sorghum syrup is probably very 

 largely in excess of the above estimate at the present time. 



The tables are taken from the Report of the Department of Agri- 

 culture for 1 878. 



Explanations and Remarks on the Tables. 

 In making thorough examination of the question of sugar pro- 

 duction in the United States, a collateral inquiry has resulted 

 in information which is appended at this time, for the atten- 

 tion, not only of the legislative powers of the country, but of all 



